第二部分:阅读理解(每小题2 分,满分30分)
第一节: 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项
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Books which give instructions on how to do things are very popular in the United States today. Thousands of these “How to” books are available; in fact, there are about four thousand books with titles that begin with the words “How to”. One book may tell you how to earn more money, another may tell you how to save or spend it, and another may explain how to give your money away.  Many “How to” books give advice on careers (职业). They tell you how to choose a career and how to succeed at it. If you fail, however, you can buy a book called “How to Turn Failure into Success”. If you would like to become very rich, you can buy the book “How to Make a Million”. If you never make any money at all, you may need a book called “How to Live on Nothing?”. One of the most popular types of books is one that helps you with personal problems. If you want to have a better love of life, you can read “How to Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life.?”. If you are tired of books on happiness, you may prefer a book called “How to Make Yourself miserable?”.
Many of these books help people use their time better. Some people want books which will give them useful information about sports, hobbies, and travel. Other people use their free time to make repairs and improvements on their homes. They prefer books which give step by step instruction on how to repair things like plumbing (卫生管道工程) and electrical wiring, or on how to redecorate (重新装饰) or enlarge a house.
Why have “How to” books become so popular? Probably because life has become so complex. Today people have far more free time to use, more choices to make, and more problems to solve. “How to” books help people deal with modern life. 
51. These “How to” books are written to______.
A. tell people on how to love their daily life             
B. earn money for the companies to survive in the competition
C. give people some good advice on how to do something they want to do 
D. give readers who want to know about America a deep impression
52. Before someone wants to find a good job, he had better______.
A. buy a book on “How to Make a Million?”
B. read a book on how to choose a career and how to succeed at it 
C. make better use of his time in his daily life     
D. use his free time to look for it 
53. If people will not succeed in what he is doing, a book called________ can give help.
A. “How to Turn Failure into Success”     
B. “How to Make a Million?”
C. “How to Succeed at Love Every Minute of Your Life?”
D. “How to Make Yourself Miserable?”

The quest for success always begins with a target. As Berra once said , "you get to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

Too many people wander through life like sleepwalkers. Each day they follow familiar routines, never asking, "What am I doing with my life?"and they don't know what they're doing because they lack goals.

Goal-setting is a focus of the will to move in a certain direction. Begin with a clear conception of what you want. Write down your goals and date them---putting them into words clarifies them. Rather than concentrating on objects to acquire and possess, focus on fulfilling your desires to do, to produce, to contribute to goal-setting that yields the true sense of satisfaction we all need.

It’s important to visualize(想象)yourself accomplishing your goal. While losers visualize the penalties(不利) of failure, winners visualize the rewards of success. I’ve seen it among athletes, statistics contrasting air and highway safety, but it made no difference. I had read too many articles describing crash scenes and imagined these scenes vividly. I had programmed myself, without realizing it ,to stay off planes.

Then one summer I had the opportunity to fly on a private plane with friends to a resort; I didn’t want to miss out on a great vacation. So I spent two weeks imagining a smooth flight on a beautiful sunny day and an easy landing.

When the day arrived, I was eager to go . To everyone's surprise, I got on the plane and I loved every minute of it , and I still use the techniques I employed that day.

1.According to the passage, if you want to be successful ,the first thing for you to do is to         .

A.find the right methods                   B.be careful about everything

C.know your ability                        D.have a clear goal

2.The problem with the author before he overcame his fear of air travel is that        .

A.he didn’t know air travel is safer than highway travel

B.he couldn’t imagine himself accomplishing his goal

C.he read too much about plane crashes and tried to avoid flying

D.he wanted to take a private plane instead of a public one

3.What would be the best title for this passage?

A.Defining Your Goal                      B.Visualizing Reward of Success

C.Overcoming the Fear of Air Travel           D.Sleepwalking Through life

 

The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t __36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much __37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38___in the family, I went to college -----quite __39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to ___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43___ the job and go to Europe to study __44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to ___47_.

The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48___necessary, so I resigned from my __49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51___every minute of it. I was a _52__man and I was doing what I__53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, __54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have _55__all those that money can never buy.

Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.

1.                A.receive         B.accept          C.refuse    D.keep

 

2.                A.respected       B.hated          C.doubted  D.scolded

 

3.                A.excuse         B.chance         C.promise  D.example

 

4.                A.happily         B.sadly           C.hopelessly D.nervously

 

5.                A.interests        B.pities           C.experiments   D.problems

 

6.                A.this            B.that            C.it    D.one

 

7.                A.question        B.help           C.warn D.visit

 

8.                A.give up         B.give in          C.go on D.throw away

 

9.                A.computer       B.law            C.history   D.music

 

10.               A.after           B.in case         C.before    D.the moment

 

11.               A.firstly          B.finally          C.generally  D.lately

 

12.               A.go back        B.go home        C.go abroad  D.go down

 

13.               A.no longer       B.of course       C.in fact D.much too

 

14.               A.position        B.college         C.home D.friends

 

15.               A.Asia           B.Europe         C.Africa D.North America

 

16.               A.wasted         B.lost            C.forgot D.enjoyed

 

17.               A.native          B.free           C.wise  D.weak

 

18.               A.repeated       B.offered         C.loved D.signed

 

19.               A.so             B.and            C.but   D.for

 

20.               A.missed         B.gained         C.achieved  D.won

 

 

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